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Udit Narayan Jha
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Nepalese playback singer
Film & TV
Bhardaha, Nepal
Udit Narayan Jha credited as Udit Narayan is an established Indian playback singer who works in Bollywood and whose songs have been featured mainly in Nepali and Bollywood movies. He has won three National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards.
Known for
- The Roshans — Self2025
- Naam Reh Jayega2022
- Superstar Singer — Self2019
- Kanpur Waale Khuranas — Himself2018
- Rising Star — Self2017
- The Kapil Sharma Show — Self2016
- Comedy Nights Bachao — Self2015
- Comedy Nights with Kapil — Self2013
- Indian Idol — Judge2004
- Indian Idol — Self2004
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Key facts
- Born
- Udit Narayan Jha , ( 1955-12-01 ) 1 December 1955 (age 70) , Baisi, Supaul district , Bihar , India
- Alma mater
- Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus , Tribhuvan University
- Occupation
- Playback singer
- Years active
- 1980–present
- Spouses
- Ranjana Jha ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 , separated ) Deepa Gahatraj ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 )
- Children
- Aditya Narayan
- Relatives
- Shweta Agarwal (daughter-in-law)
- Awards
- Full list
- Honours
- Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (2001) Padma Shri (2009) Padma Bhushan (2016)
- Genres
- Filmi pop Semi-Classical Bhajan folk
- Instrument
- Vocal
- Labels
- Yash Raj Films T-Series SKS Music Company Sony Music Sony BMG Tips Saregama Venus
- Channel
- @RealUditNarayan
- Genre
- Music
- Subscribers
- 3.5 million
- Views
- 3.3 billion
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nepal
- Place of birth
- Bhardaha
- Child
- Aditya Narayan
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Yash Raj Films
- Image
- Udit-Narayan-2019.jpg
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- Commons category
- Udit Narayan
- date of birth
- 1955-12-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Udit Narayan
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- name in native language
- Udit Narayan
- social media followers
- 23394
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Encyclopedic overview
Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955; pronunciation) is an Indian playback singer whose songs are featured in Indian cinema, primarily Hindi films.
He has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards, with twenty nominations among many others. He won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer three times for the songs Mitwa from Lagaan (2001), Jaane Kyon Log from Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Chhote Chhote Sapne Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai (2002) and Yeh Taara Woh Taara from Swades (2004). He also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bhojpuri in 2005 as the producer of Kab Hoi Gawna Hamar. He was awarded the Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2015. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution to arts and culture.
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